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The Sound Of Memory Symposium: Sound-track/Sound-scape

22-24 April 2017

Keynote Speakers: Hildegard Westerkamp, Simon Emmerson, Sarah Turner

How does the resonances of individual and cultural memory contribute to the shaping of social space?
The Sound of Memory symposium brings together filmmakers, artists and composers to explore the broad domain of acoustic ecologies and soundscape’s engagement in place. Concerns for working with the sounds of the environment – and engaging in how they impact on us and we on it – sprung out of the World Soundscape Project, inaugurated at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver in the early 1970s. The ethnographic turn in contemporary art has prompted a renewed engagement with place. This symposium explores the aesthetic, philosophical and political approaches of composers working in acoustic ecologies and artists working within social ecologies where the primary engagement is a form of sonic ethnography.

Set over three days at Goldsmiths University and the Whitechapel Gallery, The Sound of Memory Symposium features films, installations, workshops, papers and three evening concerts that take place in Goldsmiths Great Hall opening with a Concert for Earth Day:

Installations, listening rooms, workshops and Film screenings will run throughout the 23rd & 24th April at Goldsmiths, University of London. New Cross, London SE14 6NW (free entrance)
Full programme: click here.

Organised by:
The Sound-Image-Space Research Centre, School of Music and Fine Art, University of Kent and the Unit for Sound Practice Research (SPR; Goldsmiths, University of London). We are partnered by The School of Sound International Symposium, 19-22 April 2017